Chili Recipe

Well, to make chili you don't actually need a ¹ , so I'm not going to write a recipe down for you so just, you know, I think you can probably ² it, so this is my mom's recipe for chili and you know ³ always the way she used to make it for me when I was a little kid and it was great it was one of my favorite ⁴ when I was, like one year old, and, uh, so what you put in it...um ...She started with ground ⁵ and usually a pound, a pound and a half of ground beef and she ⁶ add, um, chili powder to that, I think, and maybe some onion powder and some garlic ⁷ , and I add onion myself. But, um, she never did because Dad really didn't ⁸ it very much and he used to complain about what onion would ⁹ to his stomach.

You brown the ground beef and, um, ¹⁰ know, add the chili powder, and I don't even think she added black pepper to it. A little bit of season salt, and ¹¹ the garlic powder a little bit, and onion powder, but really chili powder ¹² that in it, so you can just use the chili powder on top ¹³ the ground beef. Also, while you were doing that you would take on the monumental task of opening the ¹⁴ of things, so yeah, you would need a really big can of kidney beans and you would need a really big can of diced ¹⁵ . Now, I use diced tomatoes. She used whole tomatoes from ¹⁶ can and just broke them up with a spoon, I think, because they didn't ¹⁷ diced tomatoes then. But anyway, so you'd use diced tomatoes now, and I would drain the kidney beans and ¹⁸ you wanted to you could, um, rinse them, um, I don't, but, ¹⁹ the fluid from the tomatoes, and add the kidney beans and the tomatoes in the big frying pan. I mean, you ²⁰ need to switch it to a big pot, but ... And then you add more chili powder and then you just cook it. And, you know, if you wanted to, you ²¹ add some hot pepper flakes, or something, but, really, I mean, that's it, that's all it is. It's the ground beef, it's the ²² beans and it's the tomatoes, you know, whole canned or diced, and um... you know we served it with toast, and recently I've gotten wild and ²³ and I've put grated cheddar cheese on top. And served it with sour cream on the side, and guacamole, so those are some ²⁴ things you could add. And basically, you know, you can cook it half an hour with all the ingredients in or cook it ²⁵ hours, whatever, I mean, the longer you cook it the ²⁶ the flavours blend. Or, you could do it in a crock pot, too, and let it sit all day. But, brown the ground beef first if ²⁷ going to do it in a crock pot. So far, I've made it for my ²⁸ , you know, just the way Mom did, and I gave them the instructions and ²⁹ one of the students went home, and she made it for ³⁰ family and she said that her family just loved it. So, you know, obviously it wasn't so difficult that she couldn't ³¹ remember what the instructions were.